Maybe not the most user-friendly for brochure sites, it’s great for complex applications where giving the user a series of verbal shortcuts to different sections, such as ‘Open my account’ or ‘Save for later’, could potentially save a lot of frustration and visits to the site map.

Any browser that supports SpeechRecognition is supported and any browser that doesn’t is left unaffected.

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